The elementary particles by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)200
editions published
between
1998
and
2017
in
13
languages
and held by
2,403 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Follows the lives and fortunes of Bruno and Marcel, born to a bohemian mother during the 1960s, who are brought up separately
and pursue their own individual paths-as Bruno battles madness and sexual obsession and Michel, a molecular biologist, comes
up with a unique way to express his disgust with the violence of humankind

The map and the territory by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)94
editions published
between
2010
and
2017
in
9
languages
and held by
2,061 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping
to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones

Submission by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)78
editions published
between
2014
and
2017
in
12
languages
and held by
1,966 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National,
and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political
left to block the Front National's alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed.
This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged
and, for our narrator François - misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated - life is set on a new course." -- Provided by publisher

The possibility of an island by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)118
editions published
between
2005
and
2017
in
10
languages
and held by
1,694 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A future world in which humankind as we know it has vanished is seen through the eyes of Daniel, a writer who has made a fortune
with his comedies capturing the follies and foibles of humankind, and his subsequent clones

Platform : a novel by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)30
editions published
between
2002
and
2016
in
3
languages
and held by
846 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A bureaucrat with a preference for pre-packaged goods, Michel Renault travels to Thailand where he begins to gain a taste
for the exotic and sensual, an interest that draws him into an intense love affair with Valerie

Plateforme : roman by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)52
editions published
between
2001
and
2014
in
French
and held by
598 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société

Extension du domaine de la lutte : roman by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)96
editions published
between
1994
and
2016
in
French and English
and held by
542 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Analyse : Roman de société

Whatever : a novel by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)17
editions published
between
1998
and
2013
in
English and Spanish
and held by
497 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A French novel about a fake nihilist. He is a computer engineer from Paris who at thirty is so blase he cannot be bothered
to woo a woman, yet he longs for sex. The novel was a bestseller in France

Public enemies : dueling writers take on each other and the world by Bernard-Henri Lévy(
Book
)7
editions published
between
2011
and
2012
in
English
and held by
487 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
What begins as an exchange between bitter enemies evolves into a joint personal meditation among France's premier literary
and philosophical live wires on their lives, their writing, and what it means to think

H.P. Lovecraft : against the world, against life by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)12
editions published
between
2005
and
2008
in
English
and held by
447 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
H.P. Lovecraft, the radical, misanthropic master of the horror genre, now has an impassioned advocate in Michel Houellebecq,
Europe's most controversial modern novelst. In his illuminating appraisal of Lovecraft's life and work, Houellebecq reveals
a surprising debt to the master of weird fiction

Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)31
editions published
between
2000
and
2016
in
7
languages
and held by
296 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
On Lanzarote, there are some fascinating human specimens - notably Pam and Barbara, "non-exclusive" German lesbians. Will
they succeed in seducing Rudi, the police inspector, currently living in exile in Brussels? And will our narrator consider
his week's holiday on the island a success?

Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq = L'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq by Guillaume Nicloux(
Visual
)3
editions published
between
2014
and
2015
in
French
and held by
183 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Michel Houellebecq, possibly the most widely read living French writer, was believed kidnapped on September 16, 2011. But
was he really? After a flurry of media reports of his abduction, the story goes cold and Michel, famously reclusive, refuses
to set the record straight"--Container

Nudes by Thomas Ruff(
Book
)19
editions published
in
2003
in
4
languages
and held by
167 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions of new and recent photographs by Thomas Ruff. This is his first exhibition
with the gallery.Ruff's body of work testifies to the wealth of practices, objects and forms available to photographers today.
He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that
range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits
to generic internet pornography. The tools and techniques that he has investigated thus far include a composite picture-making
apparatus, star light system for night-vision, hand-tinting, stereoscopy, digital retouching, and photomontage. He has appropriated
images from various sources including scientific archives, newspapers, and, more recently, the internet.Astronomy has fascinated
Ruff since childhood. In 1989 he presented Sterne, his first images of the night sky based on archival photographs that he
acquired from the European Southern Observatory in Chile that were taken with a specially designed telescopic lens. From these
photographs, he selected specific details that were then enlarged to a uniform grand scale. Almost twenty years later, he
returned to contemplating the universe and its mysteries via the public Internet archive of NASA. The cassini series of 2008
was based on photographic captures of Saturn with its candy-colored moons and rings. Ruff enlarged the images to the point
where the image resolution meets its limit and the planet starts to crumble, pixel by pixel into the black void of the galaxy.
In the new ma.r.s. series, also sourced from the NASA website, Ruff has transformed the raw black and white fragmentary representations
of the planet Mars with interjections of saturated color, such as the blood-red atmospheric haze of ma.r.s. 01_III (2011)
or the steel-gray striations of ma.r.s. 02_II (2011). In addition to the large C-prints, he has experimented for the first
time with 3D image-making to extraordinary effect, and several are presented here that can be viewed with or without viewing
glasses.In 2003 Ruff produced the first nudes, culling images from Internet pornography, then digitally processing them—enlarging
them as far as possible—so as to cloud the crude clarity of the original images. For this exhibition, Ruff has created a series
of unique monumental works, enlarged to an imposing scale while, conversely, the rawness and carnality of the original images
is blurred to an innuendo. Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous
women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the
fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities—a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve
of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel

Renaissance by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)9
editions published
in
1999
in
French
and held by
150 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Des "poèmes de survie", remplis d'éclairs sauvages, de férocité et de musique

Onderworpen by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)4
editions published
between
2015
and
2016
in
Dutch and French
and held by
142 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In Frankrijk komt de Moslimbroederschap aan de macht en keert het maatschappelijke bestel ondersteboven

La poursuite du bonheur by Michel Houellebecq(
Book
)27
editions published
between
1991
and
2015
in
French
and held by
124 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A collection of poems centred on the theme of the pursuit of happiness